sharutils 4.15-1 ------------------------------------------ The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format) in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This format can be sent through e-mail (which can be problematic for regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the shar files. Note that unshar is inherently unsafe by design, because it executes arbitrary shell scripts; therefore the use of shar archives should be limited to situations where the receiver trusts the sender. Runtime requirements (these or newer): bash-4.3.33-1 coreutils-8.23-4 cygwin-1.7.34-6 libgcc1-4.9.2-2 [only needed on 32-bit] libintl8-0.19.3-1 windows-default-manifest-6.4-1 Optional runtime requirements (needed for 'shar -C'): bzip2-1.0.6-2 gzip-1.6-1 ncompress-4.2.4.4-3 xz-5.0.8-1 Additional build conditions (these or newer): binutils-2.25-1 cygport-0.17.1-1 gcc-4.7.3-1 gcc-core-4.9.2-2 gettext-devel-0.19.3-1 Canonical homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils Canonical download: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils (stable releases) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils (alpha releases) License: GPLv3+ Language: C, sh ------------------------------------ Build instructions: unpack sharutils-4.15-1-src.tar.xz if you use setup to install this src package, it will be unpacked under /usr/src automatically cd /usr/src cygport sharutils.cygport all This will create: /usr/src/sharutils-4.15-1.tar.xz /usr/src/sharutils-4.15-1-src.tar.xz /usr/src/sharutils-debuginfo-4.15-1.tar.xz Or use 'cygport sharutils.cygport prep' to get a patched source directory To find out the files included in the binary distribution, you can use "cygcheck -l sharutils", or browse the listing for the appropriate version at . ------------------ Port Notes: ----- version 4.15-1 -- 2015-02-16 ----- New upstream version. ----- version 4.14.2-1 -- 2014-12-22 ----- New upstream version. ----- version 4.14-2 -- 2014-10-13 ----- Add debuginfo, drop 'compress' placeholder. ----- version 4.14-1 -- 2014-04-16 ----- New upstream version, first 64-bit build by maintainer. ----- version 4.10-1 -- 2010-09-01 ----- Fix binary mode handling patches. ----- version 4.10-1 -- 2010-08-31 ----- New upstream version. ----- version 4.8-1 -- 2010-02-19 ----- New upstream version. ----- version 4.7-2 -- 2010-01-12 ----- Rebuild for cygwin 1.7. ----- version 4.7-1 -- 2007-07-06 ----- New upstream version, convert to GPLv3. ----- version 4.6.3-1 -- 2006-12-11 ----- New upstream version. Convert to cygport framework. ----- version 4.5.3-1 -- 2005-09-17 ----- New upstream version. Make sure uuencode and uudecode work on text mounts. ----- version 4.5.2-1 -- 2005-09-09 ----- New upstream version, fixes core dump in unshar (unshar must not be used very much, since no one else complained). New maintainer, Eric Blake. ----- version 4.4-1 -- 2005-08-02 ----- Built out-of-the-box. This and earlier versions were maintained by Corinna Vinschen, see the cygwin-announce archives for history. ---------------------- For more information about this package, see the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/sharutils/. Cygwin port maintained by: Eric Blake Please address all questions to the Cygwin mailing list at